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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

Nate Silver

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Nate Silver

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Nate Silver

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

Nate Silver

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Nate Silver

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Nate Silver

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Nate Silver

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

Nate Silver

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nate Silver

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

Nate Silver